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Sharif asks government to investigate French submarine deal kickback reports | Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has asked the government to investigate reports about the alleged kickbacks received during the purchase of the three French submarines in 1994. Talking to PML-N leaders
from Faisalabad here, Sharif said the names of all those who had received commissions
in the submarine deal should be made public. "Receiving of commission of almost
four billion rupees in a single deal depicts the sorry state of affairs in a country
where people are deprived of education, power and other basic necessities," The
Dawn quoted Sharif, as saying. A leading French newspaper had revealed that President
Asif Ali Zardari had received 4.3 million dollars in kickbacks from the sale of
three Agosta 90 submarines for 825 million euros in 1994. Zardari's spokesman,
Farhatullah Babar, however, rejected the report as a 'conspiracy' against the
President. |
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